[338]. The mead, stolen by Odin, poetry, song. See the later Edda.
[339]. The kinsmen of Odin are the Asar.
[340]. Boat of the Dvergar, the poetical mead.
[341]. Ymir’s blood, the sea. Egil thinks he hears the roar of the surf near the mound of the drowned son; it intensifies his sorrow.
[342]. House of my kinsmen, the mound where his son with other kinsmen was buried.
[343]. The shore bringing the bodies of the drowned.
[344]. As timber is the material for workmanship, so “timber of songs” means the subject from which the song is made.
[345]. As the leaves hang on the branches of the trees, so the words hang on the timber of song.
[346]. The mouth.
[347]. Daughter of Ægir.